Long Ditton 171 all out Chobham 172-6 (Long Ditton loss) LONG Ditton’s first XI welcomed league leaders Chobham to Stokes Field in this Division Two Fullers League encounter on Saturday.

With skipper Jason Matthews losing the toss on another very hot day, Ditton were asked to bat.

Facing the league’s two leading wicket takers in Aussies Jarvis and Rowe, opener David Oldham scored 30 out of the first 34 runs scored.

At this stage fellow opener John Parkins was adjudged lbw, but a further blow was to follow as Ditton’s leading run scorer and skipper Matthews was out second ball.

Oldham made 35 and there were good contributions from Roger Woods, 28, Colin Knight 24, Martyn Stear 27 and Martyn Thorpe 17.

Last man Henry Harrison hit two classic boundaries, one off each of the two opening bowlers, on the way to adding 13 not out.With Stear, he put on 29 invaluable runs for the last wicket as a total of 171 was reached.

In reply, Chobham opener Goldsmith made 40 but Ditton dismissed cheaply the two danger men, Rowe and Jarvis.Chobham struggled at 93 for 5 and then 122 for 6 but Ditton could not gain the crucial seventh wicket that would leave only a frail tail.

Man-of-the-match Deacock, who was 47 not out, and Kendall steered the visitors home by four wickets.Henry Harrison and Martyn Thorpe both bowled tidily to claim 3 for 51 each.

The second XI were away to Croydon MO and scored 161 with Paul Mock hitting a second successive half century.Les Bond chipped in with 39 but the home side claimed victory by five wickets.

Today (Wednesday) the Gents of Devon make their annual visit to Long Ditton. The match starts at 2pm.

Long Ditton’s Sunday firsts travelled to Hampton Wick Royal at Bushy Park still looking for their first win of the season.

Skipper Andrew Walter won the toss for the second week in a row and on another hot day decided to bat first on a hard track.

Long Ditton started well with openers Savage and Parkins looking at ease against a good bowling attack, but when Savage was caught at gully for 12, the score was on 35.

Henry Harrison put on a fluent 66 run partnership with Parkins before being caught out on 22. Parkins was joined by the returning JJ Campbell who made 14 and Parkins was eventually out for a very good 46.

This brought Mac Malik and Graham Coetzee to the crease with the score on 145 for 4, still a little shy of a testing total.

The runs began to flow with Malik out for 39 and Coetzee scoring a bludgeoning 51 as Long Ditton reached 211 for 6 declared off 45 overs.

A good start was made with the ball by Troy Leliard and Martin Stear to restrict the scoring but wickets were hard to come by and Hampton Wick steadily chipped away at the target set of 212.

Desai picked up 2 wickets for 42 but Colborn manoeuvred Hampton into a winning position with 102 not out as Hampton reached their target.